Coins and Historical Medals

England, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Porteus Medal, a copper award medal by J. Phillp, laureate bust of George III left, rev. gateway decorated with College arms, edge named (Joannes Roughton Hogg mdcccxxxiv), 49mm (BHM 632; E 991). Extremely fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman.

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John Roughton Hogg (1811-67), b. Kettering; educ. Oakham School and Christ’s College, Cambridge, BA 1835; ordained deacon, Bristol, 1835; curate, Brixham, 1841; vicar of St Mark’s, Torwood, Torquay, 1855-67; magistrate and JP for Devon; buried at St Mary’s Collaton, a church commissioned by him in 1864 in memory of his eldest daughter, Mary. Further biographical detail is sold with the lot